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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.

Melinda Gates

Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Date Decision Goodness Partner
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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Children Different Sick Vaccine
Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Country Myself Quality Woman World
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman

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